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E. Coli O145 Ban Opposed by Meat Industry One child is dead and 13 others sickened across six states in an ongoing outbreak of E. coli O145. Another child—a first-grader in Massachusetts—also died recently, but that was due to a different strain of E. coli, O157. After the Jack-in-the-Box outbreak in 1993, E. coli O157 was declared an adulterant, meaning it became illegal to sell meat testing positive for the deadly pathogen. It still, however, remained perfectly legal to sell meat contaminated with the other “Big Six” toxin-producing E. coli strains: O26, O111, O103, O121, O45 and O145. These strains are collectively sickening twice as many Americans as O157. For years, food safety and consumer organizations have fought to ban the sale of meat soiled with these other deadly strains against meat industry objections. “The pain during the first 80 hours was horrific, with intense abdominal cramping every 10 to 12 minutes. What about the hundreds of thousands of Americans that die from non-intestinal E. coli infections?